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It’s not well known (but is becoming better known) that the NES’s PPU graphics chip has an unutilized feature. It has a way to pipe graphics into it from another PPU, giving the two chips a combined output. The Famicom and NES both...
Link: Empower Others, by Corey Ford at Point CAnother superb post from Corey Ford:“There's a simple diagnostic for any organization: Are your leaders focused on accumulating control, or on empowering the people around them?Too many...
ALTALTDuring a preview of The Walt Disney Studios area at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (yes, both are called that; formerly Animation Courtyard), these white cans made their debut. They are… acceptable.Compared to the cans actually...
Using the Beta I’ve been using Stream for Mac in its default mode for quite a while now and I really love it. I can see things I need to tweak but the overall shape and stability of the app put a smile on my face. It’s simple, as...
And here we are again. I guess. I find myself in full-circle and back to where I was.I see this time of year and find myself needing to vent and needing to qualify and speak out to those who are about to embark on this journey we call...
Marta, moja żona, pracuje jako architekt-freelancer, zajmuje się głównie remontami i wykończeniami. Dużo rozmawia przez telefon i często spotyka się z ludźmi na żywo (zarówno z klientami, jak i z wykonawcami na budowie). Oczywiście dużym...
IntroductionThere is an RFC open on Rust which proposes what I’m calling hoisting expressions into the language. These are expressions which can be introduced inside of closures-only (for now), and are hoisted by the compiler to run...
I’m continuing on with watching the miniseries Edward the King (1975), still in desperate hopes of
Users of the Cardano wallet SecondFi (formerly Yoroi) have lost a cumulative 16 million ADA (~$2.4 million) across three attacks targeting a vulnerability in the project's wallet generation code.After the attacks commenced, SecondFi...
Exploring how compilers lower ordinary loops into explicit data-parallel kernels.
The popular idea of memory is a machine model. Memory is a hard drive. Experience is stored by the brain like a computer writes to a disk. When memory fails, it is a mechanical failure. Eventually the hard drive degrades to the point of...
As foretold, Apple has increased the price of just about all of its products today. Chance Miller has put together a list: HomePod mini: $129, up from $99 HomePod: $349, up from $299 Apple TV 4K: $199, up from $129 iPad: $449, up from...
Don’t be surprised. Don’t be shocked. Apple is raising prices. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook said a week ago that Apple couldn’t withstand the price pressure brought on by memory chip shortages, likening it a 100 year flood. Put on your waders...
Asterisk Magazine, which aspires to be The New Yorker of effective altruism, has a piece profiling “AI doomers” which, even after reviewing the author’s other sincere engagements with related topics, I’m struggling not to parse as a...
trailmaps.app Website on 2026-Jun-25 I’ve been using it for a while now, so I guess it’s a good time to announce the revamp / relaunch / whatever of trailmaps.app. This is a personal project website which started one frosty January...